Charlie Adler

Charles Michael "Charlie" Adler (born October 2, 1956) is an American voice actor. He is best known for his renowned voice credits on television as Buster Bunny in Tiny Toons, Ed Bighead in Nickelodeon's Rocko's Modern Life, Chance Furlong in the hit 1994's show SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron and as the voice of the two leading roles in Cow and Chicken. In film, he is the voice of the Decepticon Starscream in the Micheal Bay Transformers franchise. In video games, he is most known for his work as the FEV mutant, Harold, in Interplay Entertainment's critically acclaimed role-playing game Fallout and its sequel.

Selected other credits

Television work

Background information

Adler was born Charles Michael Adler on October 2, 1956 in Paterson, New Jersey. In 1984 and 1985 he starred in Torch Song Trilogy, in New York, before moving to California in 1986. His first animation role was Spike the Dragon in the 1984 My Little Pony special. In the 80's he was also the voice of the Hamburglar in several McDonald's commercials. His voice directing career began in the 90's with Rugrats. During the 1990s some of his best known voice work began with Buster Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures, however during production of season 3 he walked off the series due to not getting a part in Animaniacs. In 2007 he achieved fame for starring in Michael Bay's live-action film Transformers film series, providing the voice of Starscream, after having voiced the characters of Silverbolt and Triggerhappy in The Transformers. Just as Chris Latta voiced both Starscream and Cobra Commander in the Sunbow cartoons, Adler voiced Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: Resolute and G.I. Joe: Renegades.